Middle Data Engineer (Databricks / PySpark / Data Vault)
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Data Smart Solutions LLC
$600 – 800
Job Details
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong Databricks, PySpark, and data modelling experience to join an enterprise data platform team building a Lakehouse that powers a web app, LLM agents, and ML models. Company: Data Smart Solutions LLC. Role: Middle Data Engineer. Format: Remote.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Databricks and Lakehouse medallion architecture (bronze / silver / gold)
- Advanced PySpark skills for building transformations in notebooks
- Hands-on experience with Delta Lake
- Experience with Data Vault modelling (hubs, links, satellites)
- Experience with dimensional modelling (facts and dimensions)
- Experience ingesting data with Fivetran and custom API integrations
- Experience working with Oracle SQL databases as source systems
- Spark performance tuning, including skew handling and Liquid Clustering
- Experience deploying with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)
- Experience with Unity Catalog, group-based RBAC, and PII masking
Nice to Have
- Experience with Great Expectations or similar data quality frameworks
- Experience handling unstructured files in Blob storage
- Experience supporting LLM / agent and ML use cases with curated data
Tasks
- Building and maintaining a Databricks Lakehouse on a medallion architecture
- Ingesting data from Oracle systems and APIs into the bronze layer
- Modelling the silver layer with Data Vault and the gold layer with dimensional models
- Optimising Spark performance and Delta table layouts
- Implementing governance, access control, and PII masking in Unity Catalog
- Replacing manual scheduling processes and spreadsheets with a unified data platform
- Collaborating with the application team that builds on top of the gold layer for the web app, LLMs, and ML models
Compensation Details
- $600 – $800 (Net) + performance-based bonus
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